An Accra-based businessman, Gabriel Kwamigah Atokple, has supported the Ketu North Municipal Hospital with medical equipment worth over Ghc 30,000 and an unspecified cash amount to enable the Hospital to officially commence work.
On Monday, November 22nd, 2021, Atokple led his team to present the following items: Three brand new air conditioners, a brand new Haojue motorbike, a brand new medical refrigerator, and Boxes of surgical gloves.
The rest are: Boxes of facial masks, a brand new microwave, and a number of street lights, and the money to enable them deal with other matters in re relation to the management of the facility.
The donation was in response to a request from the managers in order to release some burden off the Ketu North Municipal Hospital and for it to ensure its effective operationalization.
In his speech, Gabriel Kwamigah Atokple acknowledged the management for their request to him to support them with such equipment in supporting the central Government’s efforts to send health facilities to the doorsteps of people irrespective of their locations.
He also indicated that the donation is intentioned to complement “the diminishing government’s effort in the re-distribution of medical supplies to support the care of the uninsured and impoverished individuals in our communities and to cinch that the people of Ketu North and its neighboring constituencies have a continuous access to a first-class healthcare”.
Management of the hospital led by the medical superintendent, Dr. Wilson Edem Sarbah, and the Administrator, Joshua Aliawogbe on their side expressed their sincere appreciation to him for choosing to chat a path that will forever impact the life of the people in and around the Ketu North Constituency.
In attendance to receive the items were Dufia of Weta Traditional Area, Togbui Sokpor who represented the Paramount Chief of the area; Togbuiga Ashiakpor VI, Togbui Tettekpa II of Weta. also present at the event are were senior citizens in the persons of James Tessu aka Galeagbelime and Rev. Martin Amenaki.
Background
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, 20th October 2020, commissioned the €14.5 million sixty (60) bed hospital facility for Weta, to be used as the Ketu North Municipal Hospital.
The hospital is one of six (6) medical installations whose construction commenced three (3) years ago and was constructed by Vamed Engineering GmbH of Austria at a cost of eighty million euros (€80 million), with funding provided by Raiffesen Bank of Austria.
The Hospital is fitted with an administration department; outpatient and emergency department; inpatient wards for male, female and paediatrics; obstetrics and gynaecology (maternity and child health); surgery including an intensive care unit; physiotherapy unit; pharmacy; diagnostic services including x-ray, laboratory, and ultrasound; logistics buildings housing the CSSD, laundry, hospital stores maintenance workshops and power station, and medical gases production unit; mortuary; staff facilities including dining areas, changing facilities and housing units for critical staff.
By Edzorna Francis Mensah
